MARCH 29, 1955

TEL AVIV, Israel—After visiting the paper mill in Hadera last week, we went to see the Alliance Tire
Company plant, which is also in Hadera. This factory is run by a young American from
Cleveland, Ohio, and he and his associates are very proud of their achievements. They
told me theirs was the first plant to put in an incentive-wage plan. In other establishments
in Israel the size of a man's family has a great bearing on the amount of wages he
gets.

In the tire-making plant, however, they pay a good basic wage and ask no questions
about a man's home conditions. If a man is a good worker, it is possible for him to
earn far more than the basic pay. My hosts pointed out to me two brothers from North
Africa who earn the highest and next-to-the-highest wages in the whole plant and produce
as much in the working day, I was told, as the average American worker.

We reached Haifa early in the afternoon and went at once to lunch at the Israel-America
Friendship League headquarters. All the executives of this group were present, and
all are men except for two women, and there was an amusing incident between the chairman
and one of the ladies. He mentioned that their wives had not been allowed to come
to the luncheon since this was still a man's world, and the lady demanded to know
from me whether I considered it still entirely a man's world!

After lunch I was accompanied on a tour of the city with the mayor, Mr. A. Houshy.
He was especially proud in having planted thousands and thousands of rose bushes along
some of the avenues and at the various traffic circles. In the innumerable parks that
dot the city there are a great many children's playgrounds, all fully equipped with
swings and seesaws and such.

The mayor also told me that there are 11 children's clubs, for which he found houses
and in which he provides the management personnel. These club directors see that the
children are kept off the streets and busy indoors or on the club property. The mayor
said this organization of clubs has made a great difference in holding down juvenile
delinquency.

One club is housed directly across the street from the city jail, and they chose this
spot deliberately, the mayor said, so that the children would be brought to think
out whether they preferred to be in jail or to join a club.

Mayor Houshy outlined for me a long-range plan he has for the city, and when he really
gets into carrying out some of these proposals he is going to have a very beautiful
place. And through his work with the children of the city he should be able to provide
the city with plenty of music—he has already formed eight children's orchestras.